After a suggestion from Shadow (#Webdev), the Category Listing page is now complete. It should, if all is well, be listing the latest 150 posts in a categorised view. I’m not too sure yet about the “latest” 150, I have a feeling it’s not sorting that out correctly, but we’ll see.
(You can find the category links page link in the right hand menu, in the “Page Links” section.)
I’m so glad the visiting public can’t see the backend of the gallery, it’s been overlooked amidst the recent updates so the colourscheme is a little, how shall I put it… bizarre?
You should notice a few more links on the site, top right, and on the right hand menu panel, for “Contact Me” and “FAQ”. No prizes for guessing what they do, but feel free to check them out. Heck, if you’re feeling bold you could even use the contact me form to send me a question for the FAQ… How’s that for user interaction? 😉
What’s left to do? More colourschemes would be nice, though not essential, other than that, the majority of the things you’ll see are done, with only the gallery backend requiring a complete re-write bit of tidying up.
Fin.
Further to the monster effort made to organise the CSS, I’ve actually gone and put it to use. See up in the header, there’s a menu bar. See the “Themes” thing? Go on… click one…
If you’re really lazy of course, you can click here but it’s really not that much of an effort.
Even Munky’s gone all festive 😉
Well, the site has barely changed on the surface, but in the background, the CSS organisation has changed MASSIVELY. Take it from me that an awful lot of time was spent dragging the document organisation into the 21st century… I still need to tidy up the colour scheme code to make it easy for me to go psychadelic, but so far things are working well.
I’m a little worried that the CSS sheet (At 16k in PHP form) is too complicated and the document structure is too DIV heavy, but it’s too late for that now.
Onwards!
This is going to be ugly, I just know it.
I discovered by log had all sorts of lovly buttons for adding effects and whatnot to posts. Thing is, I don’t know what they do, or what the CSS will make them look like.
So, here’s the experiment. You’ll see a load of gibberish or unstyled mess. I’ll be using them to identify exactly what they do and then, hopefully, making them look nice while they do it.
Bold Text.
Italic Text
Del (Dunno what this is supposed to do!)
Ins (Again, don’t know)
Blockquote, wheeee!
Pre formatted? Code perhaps...
That’s it. Now I’m off to try and fix the CSS 
EDIT: Well, initial inspection seems DEL is striketrhough, INS is underline (Can’t explain why though) and the lists work. Blockquote is knackered, PRE is too small by half, but other than that, it’s not too bad. Super.
Or something. I’m having a major go at re-writing the CSS thet controls the site after BadGuy in #WebDev (Quakenet) nearly died whilst looking through it. Poor fellow. He’ll pull through, but it was touch and go for a while.
Basically right now some DIV’s are controlling font attributes and I’ve got that many individual styles trotting about the place it’s making it uncomfortable to work with. Once done, it will allow me to knock up some more styles /colourschemes for the site which pleases some people and will keep me amused. Got to find a way of auto-generating the Munky background GIF though. Editing the colour-table at runtime? Perhaps. Lots of pre-generated Munkys to match the colourscheme? Much more likely.
Still no sight of the FAQ. Should be tomorrows job after training.
Oh, added the ImageOnly RSS feed and it works. Shock. It can be found here.
For those of you who saw this place 24 hours ago, you’ll appreciate just how far it’s come in terms of looks and groovy little features on the side there… I wish I had before & after screenshots somewhere, oh well.
What’s to come?
I’m sure there’s more, but it’ll come to me as I go on. Oh yes! RSS feeds for just the images, and automating blog posts for when I add new images Hurrah!
Well, it’s done. Unusually rapid development I must say, usually it takes me weeks to fix things on my website, but this logbook has taken, actually, less than 24 hours to complete. There are still a few more things to do, such as adding log entry alerts to the frontpage, as well as figuring out exactly how to operate the RSS feed, but it’ll come.
The log is powered by WordPress, their link’s over on the right. It’s not a bad system and, unlike some I checked out, actually installed easily, and required the modification of precisely 3 files in order to blend it in with my existing website. Not a bad job, I don’t reckon.
More to come soon, stay tuned.
